The job eliminated at the bottling plant (right) are part of a national effort designed to cut $1.2 billion in costs from the beverage and food conglomerate. Carbonated soft drink volume fell 3 percent in the third quarter, PepsiCo reported this morning as it announced the closing of six plants and the elimination of 3,300 jobs. The local […]
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Hero/Beech-Nut said this morning it has begun hiring employees for its infant food manufacturing plant now being built at the town of Florida Business Park. The company expects to add 100 new union jobs over the next several weeks. That will boost employment there to more than 450, a spokesman said. The employees will work […]
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Local Verizon Communications Inc. employees will be voting this week on a new three-year contract. The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers negotiated the deal with New York City-based Verizon Aug. 10, but local units still must ratify the contract. Len Welcome, executive vice president of CWA Local 1118, said voting […]
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About 80 workers turned out at lunchtime in downtown Albany to picket in front of the Verizon Communications Inc. building on State Street, colleague Larry Rulison reports. Members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who have been negotiating a new contract with New York City-based Verizon, said today they are […]
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Unionized Verizon workers are preparing to strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday if negotiations do not produce a contract by then. The two unions representing 65,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers along the East Coast made the announcement a few minutes ago after also announcing they would picket company locations today, including on State Street in Albany. Verizon and […]
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Members of the Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers employed by Verizon Communications Inc. are picketing at sites around New York today to keep up pressure on negotiations for a new contract. They are among the 65,000 members of CWA and IBEW from Massachusetts to Virginia covered by the contract that expired at 12:01 […]
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Contract talks between Verizon Communications Inc. and its two unions continued today without incident. Although the unions, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, are prepared to strike if needed, they are still working under the old five-year contract that was set to expire Sunday at 12:01 a.m. Since negotiations […]
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Verizon workers plan to picket again tomorrow as contract talks continue between the company and two unions that represent 65,000 workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Albany, which was the site of a picket line last week, is not on the list this time, although Oneonta, Syracuse and Utica are. The Communications Workers of America […]
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Verizon Communications Inc. and the two unions that represent 65,000 of its workers are still talking about a new contract and have not decided to go on strike. The contract between the Communications Workers of America, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Verizon was supposed to expire 12:01 a.m. Sunday, but the unions and Verizon agreed […]
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More than 100 workers, members of Teamsters Local 294, ended their week-long strike against three area companies today after approving a new four-year contract, the local announced. The workers had walked off the job at Cranesville Management Co. Inc., Callanan Industries and Bonded Concrete on July 9. Their contract had expired July 1. The workers […]
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